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The UN and its humanitarian partners have revised their global humanitarian plans for 2013, and are now appealing for nearly US$13 billion to provide assistance to tens of millions of people in 24 countries. This is the largest annual amount requested in the history of Consolidated Humanitarian Appeals....

OCHA’s Philippe Kropf provides a snapshot of the crisis in South Kivu, on a journey with his colleague Desire Mirindi to the mining town of Kamituga, where fighting between the rebel group Raia Mutomboki and government forces has displaced and terrorized thousands of people.
The young man on the...

“Quite a few of the most beautiful homes in Bukavu are built on the sweat of children working in the mines,” says a child protection officer who works in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He can rattle off the names of dozens of artisanal mines that surround South Kivu’s. He...

The United Nation’s new Deputy Humanitarian Chief, Kyung-wha Kang, has called on government and rebel forces to end the “immense suffering” of civilians in North Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Ms Kang was speaking at the end of a visit to Goma, the capital of...

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